Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-12
GARMENTS OF THE FAIR.
Naomi Trent Talks About the Tennis
COstume-A Dress That Requires
No Corset Beneath 1t.
The Growing Prejudice Against the Corset
What Our English Friends are
Wearing-Stray Hints.

Called, Is becoming almost universal al
the beach and in the country, and is
even making some Roadway here in the
heart of the city. Nothing more grace
ful or healthful has ever been introduced
into the wardrobe OF my fashion tortured
sex. The hope is strong in many weary
female breast thst Twill eventually drive
out tight waists and bustles. Joy ID the
world if it does.
What is the tennis suit? A blouse
waist and plain round skirt. 1t is msde
of soft, fine tennis flannel of any color the
wesrer chooses. Dark blue prevails, Of
course, but brown, eCru, gray, black and
even white are often chosen and elected.
Many Of the ready MADE suits have the
blouse plain dark color and the skirt
some lighter shade, dotted or striped A
wide scarf of the same material as the
blouse, gathered in 8 tsssel st the ends,
can be dTaped about the skirt lust below
the waist ana tied in g wide bow
at one side, if the wearer pIeases,
though many are made with
out this. The skirt is hemmed
with wide hem below, and has two or
three tucks, perhaps. The sleeves
may be full with s. wide cuff, but
plain and not too tight coat sleeves
are the most becoming to these bIouses
and the coolest. The wide, tight cuff
binds the forearm and gives the Wearer q
smOtheTed sensation on very warm day.
Otherwise this costume is really cooler,
in spite of its wooden material, than
many of the thin dresses which are pur-
chased for comfort in the summer
months. The reason is that it is per-
feCtlY loose, while many of the alleged
cool gowns are tight about the waist,
hence uncomfortable. That part of the
blouse above the wide collar can be
made separate and fastened in Temporal
rily, or taken out and chemisette in
serted when the wesrer wishes to look
and feel more summary about the neck.
This is the yachting costume which all
feminine London is going into this season.
1t is restfuI thing to wear and to look at
after seeing so many, many glove-ftting,
tailor-made gowns as one sees here in
New York, all of which must have 8 snug
corset under them. A prejudice against
the corset is growing, and [ am glad of
1t. Say what you will in favor of this
accursed garment, it is not easy to wear
even in It's loosest attitudes. And ii you
feel feeble or tired the sight of woman
Oil BlGCCl auNA 4dOCO up III OO15CL
and close wasted gown adds to
your WEAKNESS. Nine. Bernhard
despises the corset. Never wore
one in her life and never intends
to. And that, without a doubt, is
why her figure is so flexible and graceful
and her movements sinuously fascinating
like those OF some long stepping, free
limbed, Jungle bred tigress. The muscles
e
on themselves, and not on stays. In the
winter, says one who claims to know, she
wears to the theater long full gown Of
heavy Chinese Grape, with tight fitting
sleeves reaching to the elbow only. The
gown hangs loose from the throat to the
ankles. Over this she wears her stage
costumes, never removing it unless the
toilet is deCOllete. 1t serves two pur-
poses 1t keeps her warm and adds the
fulIness to her figure without
in the least impeding her movements.
Ellen Terry wears no corset and her
willowy gIaCe is dream like in its beauty.
Miss Eastlake wears no corset on or off
the stage, either. Her wide, classic
waist and long, powerful step are very
definite parts of her attractiveness. |
LaDgtry is corseted Juno. She keeps
her figure we'll to the modern conyen-
tional English standard of fashionable
beauty. Fashionable it is, but artistic,
never.
In lecture given by Franklin Sargent
to the pupils Of the Lyceum school Of
acting in this city recently, the lecturer
said "The inventor of buCkram should
be publicly dishonored. The corset, in
all its forms, destroys not only health.
but beauty. With its introduction the |
poetry Of the feminine form was turned |
inJo prose. Bernhardt understands this,
and poses untrammeled by watch springs
or whaIebones."
Many ladies have their thick gowns
fitted over corset and then wear them
without the corset. And as for bastIes,
they are certainly distortions of the in
tent of divinity. Fashion demands them
with the tight WASTED, regulation draped
dress; but all the world and Jupiter will
admit that they are uncomfortable, ugly
and ungracefuI. If 8 woman had been
born with such an eXCresCenCe on her
person, wouldn't she give her last dollar
to have it removed? Yet she will permit
the foolish fetch fashion to put it on her,
though she grosns and signs in misery
every hour that she wears it. And so say,
get an outing costume and live in it all
you can. Be comfortable, and look COM
Portable and graceful. Blessed be the
fashion which distorts not the human
form.
Now is the time to get q round or
sailor hat of white rough straw and trim
it with white ribbon, tsrletan or null. 1t
will give q summary atmosphere to any
toilet and be appropriate. Hats Of that
kind can now be bought at many houses
in this city for twenty five, twenty, nine
teen and even seventeen cents apiece.
As to bonnets, word comes from over
the sea that some bewildering ones have
been prepared for Ascot, the swell
est of British race meetings. They
are dainty and airy to de-
gree. Strineless they are, of course, and
are worn perched or. the top of the head
in dare you sort Of way, that makes a
masculine heart capitulste at once on any
terms. Even there, where the laws in re-
gard to hats and bonlets are severe and
the sailor hat is met at every
step this season. Red sailors are par
ticularly in vogue with our English Gous-
ms. Somebody's man of course-re-
minds us all that red hats are no good
for weeping in. He says: owe may
laugh in skyblue hat, but we must not
weep in rose colored one"
English diyinities who are ordering